There’s a fantastic community of people out there who get off on helping others overcome their bullshit excuses for complacency. One of the best is Hugh MacLeod, the always genius and often surly cartoonist, author, and blogger behind GapingVoid.
Like me, Hugh once worked in advertising. Unlike me, he’s figured out how to fully commit to [...]
I’ve spent a lot of time lately stump-talking about the necessity for careers to be defined inward out instead of outward in. You aren’t a copywriter or lawyer or bookkeeper. You are Lisa and Stuart and Jonathan, with ambitions, ideas, and talents that make you uniquely Lisa and Stuart and Jonathan.
Sure, it’s easier at cocktail [...]
Briefs like this aren’t solved by whiners. They’re solved by MacGyvers. Someone who can look danger in the eye and beat it with nothing but a paper clip, sandpaper and lemon juice. Sometimes, that MacGyver fella has got to be you.
I became a huge fan of Brandon George today. Brandon is a student at my alma mater, the Creative Circus. He is also a rabid Cleveland Cavaliers fan.
As every Clevelander knows, LeBron James IS the Cavs. But in two and a half months, they may lose him to free agency. So Brandon started a campaign [...]
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Seth Godin and Chris Brogan are two of my favorites. Seth has been around for decades. He writes best-selling business books. He lectures. And everything that comes out of his mouth could be its own TED conference.
Chris’s expertise is rooted in new technologies. To everyone who reads him, it would appear the man never sleeps. [...]
My position on crowdsourcing is so on-the-fence that a stiff breeze in one direction or the other would send me toppling to either side.
On the one hand, it’s a brilliant way to engage fans/consumers/friends with your brand. Instead of pushing an internally generated idea, you invite participation in shaping its course. There are great examples [...]
“Don’t be the person looking for a job. Be the person doing something interesting.”
That was a quote from our interview with Lisa Hickey, who has not-so-quietly reinvented herself from a traditional advertising creative director into the self-made queen of social media strategy.
Point is, you can smell a job seeker from a mile away. Job seekers [...]
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Next Thursday, October 1st, in NYC, The Feast Conference will gather the minds that are making the world a better place. From their web site:
Our secret sauce lies in a healthy combination of passion, creativity, and entrepreneurship to shift the way things are done. “The Feast” brings together the world’s leading creative entrepreneurs, revolutionaries, radicals, [...]
If you are reading this blog, you hardly need to be told that advertising, and those of us who practice it, took a real body blow in this recession. And the people I know who have been bloodied seem to have one of three reactions to it.
A few people who use it as inspiration or [...]
